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Tax Report

Updated Nov. 19, 1997 12:29 a.m. ET

TAX CHEATS of a different stripe become a prime target of IRS gumshoes.

The Internal Revenue Service's criminal-investigation division probes tax fraud and helps other law-enforcement agencies look into financial crimes, such as those by drug dealers. Critics long have accused the division of paying too much attention to drug dealers and other crooks in illegal businesses, and not enough attention to catching tax cheats who fail to...